Combination tool



Filed Feb. 10, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l fin/e076:

'G'A Vin/e270 May 6, 1930. G. N. VIVENOY COMBINATION TOOL Filed Feb. '10, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 fave/7751:

Patented May 6,

A ama UNITED STATES} Pmw err-ice i 1- GUILLAUME NESTOR viviirrov, or ianussi'iLs, BELGIUM.

COMBINATION rooL -,App1icatioi1 filedFebruary 16,1928, seriaino; assnqs'. and Belgium August 6; 1927.

My invention relates to a combination tool comprising a shovel, a pick, an axe and shears. V r

The invention has for its object to provide a tool of this kind inwhich, when a certain tool is in use, the other tools which are, permanently attached to the handle, are protect-- ed in such a manner to avoid being damaged by the use of the certain tool in question. I

With this object in view my inventionessentially consists in the specialarrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the appended claims. g I

On the annexed drawings which show as an example, one embodimentoi my invention. I i

Fig. 1 is a front elevatiomthe pick being in a position for use. V

Fig. 2 is a detail View of the arrangement of the cutting edges forming the shears.

Fig. 3 gives a section on the line III-HI in Fig. 1 and shows especially the position of the pick in the recess of the handle.

Fig. 4 isaside elevation, on the sidecarrying the catch, the shovel being in a position for use. Fig. 5 is a frontelevation of the tool, the shovel being in a position for use. a i As shown on these figures, the tool comprises ahandle 1, preferably of turned wood.

This handle is hollowed out in its central part and towards theend, as shown in Fig. 3 so as to form' a recess 2 forth e pick. This recess is protected by a lining 3 in pressed metal, fixed to the handle by screws 4. the end of the handle this lining 3 passes under a fitting 5 also made of onefp'iece of pressed steel. This second fitting is-fixedto the handle by a 'bearing or riveted" pivot 6 and screws 7. The secon fitting 5 is provided with a fiat, portion 8 jivhi'chexten'ds V lengthwise the handle 1 and. fits closely, so as to be fastened by a rivet 9 to thelliiiing 3 which forms the sheathof the pick and so as to strengthen this means the part subject to the working stress of the axe; 0n the bearing 6 there canturn a combinationcom sisting of a pick 10 and an axe 11. Over thisf axe 11 theshovel 12 is slipped consisting of two'pieces of sheet steel welded andriveted when the shovel is in use (Fig. 5) bear against twoshoulders- 15 formedin the axe, so as to transmit the stressonto the centre ofthebearing .6 in the axis-of the handle 1 andat the same time to prevent the cutting edge 16 of the axe 11 to blunt itself at sheath 13. i

thebottom ofthe ,A catch-or bolt18, preferably or" steel, is

. mounted on thefittingo by a pivot pin 17 around which the catch is movable this catch consisting of a. wide circular fiat 'part19 and a fiat extension 20. tangential to the' circular part; Thls extens on-1s provldedat 1ts end with a;.finger i21 which is perpendicular to it and whichenters into the tools inorder to retain them in their working position; i The extension 20 of. the catch 1 8 is. provided-with a finger-piece or hook 22. through which the catch may-be manipulated. by the operator to causeselective engagement of the finger 21 with either or the ,notches 23, or 2 1 and through such. cooperation hold the tools in togetherand forming a sheath for the axe. In this sheath two rivets 14: are fixed which,

selected position, as will be clear from Figs.

land 5. This catch formsja spring by friction on the-head of the haiidlefitting.

*The axe 1 1 is provided with a lateral Gilt. ting,portion25whichfin operation cooperates withedges 26.,and 27, fixed by means of rivets 28 on the fitting 5 ;to form: a shear oi'inore or less conventional ype. l/Vhen'inusqthe axe rests against the catch 18, serving in. a measure to relieve the strain-on the centralbear ing,

-' The useg o f the tool 'liollows: I V

The shovel 12,.bein'g in :itslplace on the tion shown in" Fig l 1,gwhereas theaxe 11 is 18, to dise ngage'th'e finger 21 oftheextenaxejll,isrretainedi on the latter by the en- .gagementlin the notch23l of-the finger 21 of the flat extension 20 and is then in the posisitnjzorrom the notch 23. and to cause the .the'combination of shovel, andpick to" pivotiround'the bearing 6 in ordertobring V the'pick 10 "intolits recess 2 formed by the lining 3. 'The shovel, the axe and the pick are'then retained in their new-position by the engagement of the finger21 of the extension 20, in the notch 24 (Fig.

The shovel is then in position for use, while the pick is withdrawn into the handle.

Then the shovel is in use, the strains to which it is subjected, are transmitted by the rivets llto the shoulders 15 of the axe and by these.

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to the bearing 6, so that the use of the shovel cannotcause any blunting of the cutting edge of the axe. If on the other hand it is desired touse the tool as an axe, by manipulating the catch 18,'the axe andthe pick are brought back to the position shown in Fig. 1 and the shovel is taken off to-use the axe. or

If the shears are to be used,'the shovel can remain fixed to the whole, and it s'uficesfihe parts being in the position shown in Fig.1,

to introduce the Wire to be out between the I cut-ting edge-25 formed by the axe and the cutting edges 26"and 27 formedbyfthe spur .fixed tothe fitting 5 by the rivets 28, after whichan appropriate pull is exercised on the handle 1. t 1

The invention is evidently not limited to the constructional details ofthe handle. As

already explained, this may be of turned wood, strengthened b'y'the fittings 3- and 5, it may however be of metal-and inone piece with these parts. Ifdesired, the recess formed in the handle may be used'to contain a screw-driver or other accessory tools, independently of the combinationtool'proper;

What Iclaim isi 3 1. A composite tool including a 'han'dle,:a

ick an. axe said nick and axe bein connected as a unit and pivotally supported with re-' I ,spe'ct to the handle, said pick being housed in the handle when the axe is in inoperative relationto and in alignment with the handle, a shovel blade formed to present a sheathto 7 receive the axe, wherebythe shovel blade is housed, the said shovel forming a sheath for i the axe whereby the cutting edge of the axe is used a catchpivotally mounted'at the end of removably' supported on the axe, and means for fixing the unit tool-in operative or inoperative relation'to the handle, said means cooperating with the shovel blade when'the latter is in position on the axe.

2. In atool of the kind described, income in one binatio'n a pick andi'an axe formed piece and rotatably mounted at the endofth'e' handle, a removableshovelin'which the axe is adaptedto be protected when the shovel is the handle,a finger at the end of the said catch, the said finger-being; adapted to be" introduced into ,notches cutin the body of the shovel on the right andithe left of the longitudinal'axis of the latter, wherebythe axe and the shovel are connected together and the shovel is adapted to be removedfromthe axe and the piece formed by ftheaxe and the 7 pick is adapted to be fixed in a position at 

